Man, how many times can I get Jack Benny on the blog this month? In a rare case of Jack Benny playing someone other than Jack Benny, on December 25, 1948, Jack took the lead role in a presentation of The Man Who Came to Dinner on the Hotpoint Holiday Hour. Now, he can't equal the great performance Monty Woolly gave in the 1942 film version, but Jack is really great. The dialogue is crackling good and the cast includes Charles Boyer, Gene Kelly, Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck, Rosalind Russell and Henry Fonda so yeah, it's got a pretty amazing pedigree! You can hear it on archive.org here.
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